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• Berg to remake Dune

  By John Freeman on 28 December 2007

  MTV reports that The Kingdom director Peter Berg is set to direct a new big-screen version of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune. Berg said that the film would have been his next project, but the US writers’ strike is preventing… Read More ›

• Lost Girls reach the UK

  By John Freeman on 28 December 2007

  Warning: Potential readers are warned of the “adult nature” of this book before following any links below. Lost Girls, Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s controversial take on the adult lives of Alice (from Alice in Wonderland), Wendy (from Peter Pan)… Read More ›

• Fontsy That…

  By John Freeman on 27 December 2007

  The lettering style of Lancashire’s finest comic book artist and graphic novelist Bryan Talbot is finally at your beck and call thanks to the good graces of those awfully nice chaps at Comicraft, the US fonts company run by former… Read More ›

• Who ratings triumph

  By John Freeman on 27 December 2007

  With the BBC dominating the ratings on Christmas Day, Doctor Who managed its best ratings since 1979 with the festive episode Voyage of the Damned, no doubt helped by the guest appearance of actress-singer Kylie Minogue, playing waitress Astrid on-board… Read More ›

• The New 12 Days of Christmas…

  By John Freeman on 26 December 2007

  Beano artist and writer Kev F. Sutherland penned the following sketch from the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, recorded live at the Canal Cafe Theatre, London. Warning: some swearing…

• Happy Christmas from the Really Heavy Greatcoat

  By John Freeman on 25 December 2007

  

  This Really Heavy Greatcoat strip pays tribute to Bob Dylan’s classic “Subterranean Homesick Blues” – script and art by Nick Miller

• (W)HO! (W)HO! (W)HO! It’s Christmas!

  By John Freeman on 24 December 2007

  The Down The Tubes crack reporting team debate potential plotlines for the Doctor Who Christmas special. Last year I sat on (not behind) a sofa on Christmas Day and watched the Doctor Who special with my five year old nephew…. Read More ›

• Merrie Chrissmusz

  By John Freeman on 24 December 2007

  Charley’s War back page pin-up from Battle dated 27 December 1986. Today, as in 1916, British soldiers are fighting in foreign lands. We wish them a Merry Christmas and a safe return to their families in 2008.

• Red Dwarf returns to the (smaller) screen

  By John Freeman on 23 December 2007

  A new Red Dwarf Christmas special will be screened this Christmas — on your mobile. Fans of sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf can already relive the series by watching exclusively created ‘mobisodes’ of the show on their mobile phone thanks… Read More ›

• Dan Dare Times Two, Exhibition in Southport

  By John Freeman on 22 December 2007

  (with thanks to Stuart Roberts): Local Southport paper Champion reports the town, once home to his creator, Frank Hampson, can now boast two Dan Dare statues. Two busts are currently being stored at Atkinson Art Gallery in Lord Street. A… Read More ›

• Dead Zone, 4400 Cancelled

  By John Freeman on 20 December 2007 • ( 1 )

  Ausiello reports that the USA Network has cancelled The Dead Zone and The 4400, bothof which have aired their last episodes. 4400 creator and Executive Producer Scott Peters confirmed the cancellation on a message posted on the official 4400 Web… Read More ›

• More on those Dan Dare sales figures…

  By John Freeman on 20 December 2007

  Earlier today, I posted news of Dan Dare #1’s strong sales in the UK and a round up of just some of the reviews I found about the title (which have apparently astonished some Dan Dare fans who didn’t like… Read More ›

• In Space No One Can Hear You Build…

  By John Freeman on 19 December 2007 • ( 1 )

  If the Forbidden Lego book hasn’t sparked your imagination for something to do with the kids’ Lego once they have become bored with it after Christmas, maybe this website will give you a few ideas. Lego Sci-Fi has Lego representations… Read More ›

• Dan Dare UK Sales Success, Review Round Up

  By John Freeman on 19 December 2007 • ( 4 )

  ** Warning! Potential spoilers in the comments on this post!** UK sales of the first issue of Virgin’s new Dan Dare have made the title one of the most requested and most difficult to find in the run up to… Read More ›

• My Wife Left Me…

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2007 • ( 1 )

  Before the sublime Doctor Who: Blink, before the gory Jekyll, before his two consecutive Hugo awards for new Doctor Who episodes, before even the four seasons of Coupling, Steven Moffat wrote two seasons of a little gem of a sitcom… Read More ›

• In Review: Cosmogenesis

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2007 • ( 1 )

  Just released by Clown Press and available via amazon.co.uk, Waterstones and other good bookshops is Adam Grose and Tony Suleri’s epic Cosmogenesis, a fully revised and updated version of the sprawling, magnificent space epic these two British creators have been… Read More ›

• One for those of us working in publishing…

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2007

  – and advertising, marketing, promotions etc. etc. For the record, we of course don’t know any pubisher or anyone in advertising who behaves like this. (Do you?). This mashup was conceived, written and produced by World Wide Wadio (“an All-Star… Read More ›

• For More Action And Adventure

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2007 • ( 1 )

  While former Commando editor George Low continues with the Carlton (and SevenOaks) Commando reprint books, new Commando editor Calum Laird has made his mark on DC Thomson’s official website for the comic. The site has be given a revamp with… Read More ›

• Daily Telegraph Doctor Who Story

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2007

  Paul Cornell’s Doctor Who short story for Christmas, The Hopes and Fears of All the Years will be appearing in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday 22 December, and then on the Telegraph’s website, www.telegraph.co.uk. “There are some lovely illustrations by… Read More ›

• Rumble in the Jungle!

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2007

  (Report originally posted by Richard Sheaf) Two of Carlton’s Commando collections currently available have now been produced in alternative covers by Ian Kennedy. Fetaured here are the two Anzacs at War and the True Brit covers… There’s also a new… Read More ›

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